Friday, June 15, 2012
Officials from the state's mosquito control department visited Bergen County's unit in Paramus to introduce a natural line of defense against mosquitoes and West Nile Virus.
PARAMUS - After a mild winter and a wet start to June, Bergen County has become a fertile breeding ground for tens of thousands of mosquitoes, just in time for summer. The state's Department of Environmental Protection's (NJDEP) Office of Mosquito Control Coordination has been working closely with Bergen County Mosquito Control in Paramus, sharing invaluable forms of mosquito control from insecticides to more natural methods, depending on the type of mosquito. On Wednesday, the state presented a natural enemy of the mosquito - copepods, tiny crustaceans that exist in salt and fresh water. “They’re relatives of crayfish and love mosquitoes,” explained Bob Kent, the administrator of the state's mosquito program. “They also love to eat …
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
May court appearance scheduled.
The son of Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan entered a not guilty plea Friday to drug charges stemming from an incident where he allegedly smoked marijuana with two teenage girls at the county executive’s home. Brendan Donovan, 20, waived a court appearance set for Tuesday and his Hackensack-based attorney, Robert Galantucci, entered the plea on his client’s behalf. according to a report on northjersey.com. Donovan was charged last week with possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and being under the influence of marijuana. The arrest came after police got a call from Rutherford High School informing them that a female student had left school and appeared to be under the influence of drugs, authorities said. Police…
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Sheriff blasts County Exec's task force as "subterfuge" and asks issue be put on the ballot. Task force was commissioned to review a $600,000 study that recommended cutting or eliminating the county police.
Editor's Note: For more about this story, see Patch's in-depth look at the battle for the $22 million Bergen County police department. A task force commissioned by Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan has rejected a private consultant’s recommendation that the county’s police department be eliminated or downsized. Consultant Guidepost Solutions had completed a study last year, which was commissioned by the previous administration, detailing three scenarios where the county police would be eliminated, downsized or its operations transferred to the county sheriff. Tuesday’s report by Donovan’s Bergen County Law Enforcement Consolidation Task Force, however, said increased retirements, the newly enacted 2 percent spending cap coupled with…
delgado
8:43 pm on Friday, May 4, 2012
this it the start of a cover up. What about the transportation of the children? A full invesitgation is needed. What about the role of the Bergen County Police? more ›